13-year-old Na Bata, Pinatay ng Police!

Last March 2, PO2 Omar Malinao, a policeman from Tondo, Manila, shot the 13-year-old boy, Aldrinne Pineda, grade 6, near the Veritas Slaughterhouse. He was shot in the stomach by Malinao who was reportedly chasing a group of metal scrap looters.

Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Rappler

The Manila Police District (MPD) on Thursday filed a murder case against the policeman. The teenager died in the hospital the next day but before he did, he told his father that it was a policeman who had shot him.

No witnesses were able to properly identify the shooter, because of a supposed black facemask. But Malinao has stepped forward, admitting that it was an accident because he tripped then instinctively triggered the gun.